Curiouscast

Weekends with Ben O’Hara-Byrne

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Weekends with Ben O’Hara Byrne will showcase Ben’s signature curiosity, good humour, and love for great Canadian stories - whenever you're listening. Learn new things, hear surprising perspectives, and head into your day with fresh stories to talk about. Ben O’Hara Byrne brings decades of experience in journalism, broadcast, and connecting with people to the microphone. Throughout his career, he’s held reporting & anchor roles across Canada, from Quebec City to Ottawa to Victoria. He’s been a network bureau chief in Beijing and London, U.K. And, he’s reported on stories around the world, inclu...

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Latest episode

Mar 15, 2026

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Episodes

True Crime: The Canadian serial killer that you’ve probably never heard of 14.05.2025

Guest: Julian Sher and Lisa Fitterman, co-authors of Hitman: The Untold Story of Canada's Deadliest Assassin.

Carney’s new yet familiar looking cabinet 13.05.2025

Guest: David Akin, chief political correspondent, Global News .

Canada’s electric vehicle strategy has failed, are there lessons to learn? 13.05.2025

Guest: Jim Hinton, Intellectual-property lawyer and patent and trademark agent with Own Innovation.

Honda pulls the plug on massive EV investment in Ontario 13.05.2025

Guest: Peter Frise, professor of automotive engineering, University of Windsor.

Set the table for a delicious journey into how food tells the story of immigration in Canada 13.05.2025

Guest: Sara England, curator of temporary and travelling exhibitions at the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21

A new book dives into the bumpy history of Canada’s longest highway 13.05.2025

Guest: Craig Baird, Canadian History Ehx host and author of Canada’s Main Street: The Epic Story of the Trans-Canada Highway

How Newark airport became the focus of a US air traffic control system under strain 13.05.2025

Guest: Ron Bazman, air traffic and operations consultant, former air traffic controller and director of operations at Detroit Metropolitan Airport 

U.S. and China Agree to Temporarily Slash Tariffs, what could that mean for Canada? 13.05.2025

Guest: Charles Burton, Senior Fellow, Sinopsis, Former diplomat at Canada’s embassy in Beijing

Why violence is Ontario schools is at ‘crisis levels’ for teachers and education workers and what can be done about it 13.05.2025

Guest: Darby Mallory, graduate student, department of Criminology, University of Ottawa and co-author of Running on Fumes: Violence, Austerity, and Institutional Neglect in Ontario Schools

Has Canada’s first big cricket factory gone silent? 12.05.2025

Guest: Sylvain Charlebois, a senior director for the Agri-Food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University

The high-profile trial of hip-hop mogul Sean ”Diddy” Combs gets underway in New York 12.05.2025

Guest: Neama Rahmani, former federal prosecutor and CEO of West Coast Trial Lawyers

What most working moms want for Mother’s Day 10.05.2025

Guest: Koula Vasilopoulos, senior managing director, Robert Half.

Are students using AI to cheat their way to degrees? Does it matter? 10.05.2025

Guest: James Walsh, features writer, The Intelligencer at New York Magazine,

Is the Chicago-born Pope a Cubs or White Sox fan? Why it’s a burning question in the Windy City 09.05.2025

Guest: Paul Sullivan, sports writer, Chicago Tribune.

One of the new Pope’s closest friends helps us get to know Leo XIV 09.05.2025

Guest: Father Bernie Scianna, faculty member at Villanova University and longtime friend of Pope Leo XIV.

Construction set to begin on 1st of Ontario’s small modular nuclear reactors 09.05.2025

Guest: David Novog, Professor and NSERC Industrial Research Chair, Department of Engineering Physics. McMaster University.

Gold is rising. Canada has gold. Why aren’t we doubling down on this? 09.05.2025

Guest: Heather Exner-Pirot, director of energy, natural resources and environment, Macdonald-Laurier Institute.

Why the US/UK trade deal is bad news for most but not Canada 09.05.2025

Guest: Justin Wolfers, professor of economics and public policy, University of Michigan.

Inductees to 2025 Canadian Music Hall of Fame 09.05.2025

Guest: Allan Reid, President, CEO, The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences/The JUNO Awards and MusiCounts.

Who is Pope Leo XVI? 09.05.2025

Guest: Mathew Schmalz, Professor of Religious Studies, College of the Holy Cross.

American Cardinal Robert Francis Provost chosen as new pope 08.05.2025

Guest: Jeff Semple, senior international correspondent, Global National .

American Cardinal Robert Francis Provost chosen as new pope 08.05.2025

Guest: Rev. William Meehan, priest with archdiocese of Hamilton studying in Rome.

Prepping for cottage season good eats with chef Andrea Buckett 08.05.2025

Guest: Andrea Buckett, author of The Essential Cottage Cookbook.

Edmonton writer and Afghanistan veteran up for Amazon first novel award for his story of four young soldiers 08.05.2025

Guest: Benjamin Hertwig, Canadian veteran, author The Juiceboxers.

Journo Corner: 1st vote of the Conclave brings black smoke 08.05.2025

Guest: Jeff Semple, senior international correspondent, Global National.

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